My first attendance at Maine Road was in October 1944 as a 10 year old boy with my cousin Roy Kyte. City were playing Crewe Alexandra and drew 1 -1 with a player named Heale scoring City’s Goal. It was a sunny afternoon and the sky blue shirts made a great impression on me and the ground was so impressive and both being boys we could sit on the barrier behind the goal half way up the terracing at what was known as the scoreboard end. This was when it was only Regional North football and you did not know who was playing for the teams. The programme which was one sheet printed on both sides and the teams had a lot of A N. Others printed on it